Wealth Creation Blog

Do you know what the difference between the journey of success and the journey of failure is? It’s one small step.

Where Most People Fail To Build Wealth

We talked about how the difference between the wealthy and the successful and the unsuccessful is the willingness to do what the average person will not and does not. And that willingness—the very difference between the wealthy and the financially struggling—comes down to one point in time. That time is the point where most people stop, throw up their hands, and give up in despair and defeat.

Most people fail at building wealth not because they aren’t capable, but because they believe they are not capable. And it would only take one step—one action—to move beyond that point to become a person of wealth and financial means.

Going One Step Further

All journeys begin with one step. That is not a new concept, and I’m sure you’ve heard it before. The longest voyage (which wealth creation is not, by the way) starts with just one forward motion. One step beyond that point where you might feel like giving up is the difference between success and failure; the difference between financial wealth, abundance, freedom, living well, and continued financial struggle and stress.

Knowing this is a powerful thing because there will be times when you feel like giving up. There will be moments when you think wealth is too far away from you; where you think it will just take too long to get there. And you will be tempted to give up—to resign yourself to the life you are living now as one that is comfortable enough and familiar. But then in a few weeks, or maybe just days, when you start to feel financial pressure again you will be back here, looking for more ways to achieve financial wealth. So it is best to know ahead of time that these moments are inevitable, and to know that all it takes to get past them is one more effort—one step further.

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004-2008

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We talked about how you need to be wealthy in order to have the things that a wealthy person has; in order to build wealth. But how can you be wealthy if you don’t know what that is? There is only one answer, then. To learn what it is to be wealthy.

What Is Wealth?

What is wealth? How do you learn what wealth is? What it is to be wealthy? Can you read it? Maybe. Someone else’s definition might give you some guidance, but more than likely you will have to define the term for yourself.

Wealth means many different things to many different people. Of course here we are mostly talking about financial wealth (although we also recognize that financial wealth contributes to other forms of wealth), but we do recognize that there is more to wealth than money. Wealth might also be

• Abundance
• Absence of need
• Happiness
• Contentment
• Success
• Enjoyment

…or anything else meaningful that you want to add to the list.

If we can accept things such as these as characteristics of the wealthy, then we can be wealthy in many ways even before we have the money that is so often used to define wealth (which is a subjective measure anyway).

The real point is that you can be wealthy, as we talked about, without money. You can be wealthy right now if you really want to be—if you decide to be. When you define what wealth is, you can change your thoughts to be wealthy thoughts. For instance, if wealth means absence of need, change your thoughts from being needy thoughts into being proactive thoughts. Instead of thinking you need something and you cannot have it, think that you are taking measures to obtain it.

You should create your own list of attributes and definitions, as wealth is personal. Develop that list, and then look for the possibilities within it-look for how you are wealthy now, and how you can become wealthier. When you do, you can start taking those wealthy actions, and then you will begin to have those things (money, financial wealth, things that money can buy) that wealthy actions reap.

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 - 2008

The absolute first step in accumulating wealth is empowering yourself. Self-empowerment is necessary before you can begin to control the money that flows through your life and maximise the potential of it.

Living The Unempowered Life

Think of the unempowered life as the one that you have been living up until now, or up until the point where you took definite steps towards change and the focused pursuit of wealth. If you’ve been on this course for a while it is possible that you have already gained a level of financial empowerment in your life; if you are just starting out consider this read an essential first step and illumination.

In either case no doubt you can understand the importance of empowering yourself to live a better, freer, wealthier life. Either you are not yet empowered and you can feel the need, or you have gained a level of empowerment and glimpsed the possibilities that gaining control over money presents to you.

Financial Empowerment’s Double-Edged Sword

There are many small factors that contribute to personal financial empowerment, but there are two big ones that prevail:

1. Wealth Education
2. Personal control

Ultimately it will be your personal control (for lack of a better term—this isn’t just about discipline) that dictates your success in building wealth. For almost everyone, though, a quality wealth education is elemental in gaining that control. Whether formally through a course or informally through reading and study, the people who succeed and go on to build wealth all get educated before they succeed.

Empowering yourself is one of the greatest gifts you can give to yourself. Having power and knowing it is enlightening in and of itself. Give yourself that gift, and take time to enjoy your accomplishment—your power!

Are you empowered? How has that knowledge changed you? How would you describe the feeling of empowerment? I’m eager to hear…

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 - 2008

Most everyone “gets it” when we talk about being more positive and living everyday in abundance to attract more of the same; at least, they understand the concept. But getting started can be a bit more of a challenge, so let’s talk about that some more.

Starting The Cycle Of Living Well

Once you have money it’s easy to live like you do. It’s easy to live well so that you capture that powerful law of attraction and attract more of the same. But most people do not start out wealthy. They start with a motivation, a hope, and a wish, but not with an overflow of money.

Here’s the thing—you don’t really need money to attract money. You need success and positive thinking to attract more success, and the money then comes. You need to focus on the attitude and the concept, not so much on the physical presence of money. Money is a byproduct—the byproduct to positive thinking and living well—to living wealthy. By that I do not mean just financial wealth, but life wealth.

As we all have heard so many times, there is more to life than money. But try living life today without money….that’s not so easy. Money is a very handy tool in the modern world, isn’t it? The point here is that you can live wealthy without having money. You find wealth in all that you have, by focusing your positivity and abundant thought on what you have and what you are achieving and working towards.

A Word Of Caution

Whenever this subject comes up I feel I need to give a word of caution. As Jamie McIntyre says, you need to start living a life of quality and abundance in order to attract more of the same in your life. You need to start living wealthy. But you also need to understand what that really means. It does not mean going further into debt to live like the wealthy. That is really opposite to your goal, because that is not living in abundance that is attracting more debt.

Living wealthy and stockpiling wealth and abundance means finding the abundance you already have in your life and starting from there. It’s there if you look for it. It may mean changing the way you view your life, but you can find, through positive thinking, that you already have a level of wealth in your life upon which you can build to attract more.

Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
UniversalWealthCreation.com © 2004 - 2008